Sunday, June 29, 2008

synchronicity

I love it when great minds think a like. Just as I challenged a local reviewer to consider a week of eating as a vegan, London food critic Jay Rayner has done exactly that. His piece about the experience gave me some of the best laughs I have had today.

Rayner's standpoint can be best summarized as:

I also don't believe you can be genuinely happy and vegan. I think the two are mutually exclusive. The thing is, Morris dancing and incest aside, it's hard to criticise something unless you've tried it. My week as a vegan will add substance to my argument. These are the sacrifices I am willing to make for the moral low ground.

It was very interesting, although I missed the beginning and the host was grating a little by the end. It was the third episode "Diet and Disease" - http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/medical-mavericks.shtml

thanks AOF (and Wendy) for pointing out a very interesting piece - I did want to point out to him that to go cold turkey is definitely not the way to go vegan and he did seem very focused on fake meat which I don't think is so necessary a part of the diet